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title: Now the Master was greatly pleased When he observed all this, For no… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Master was greatly pleased When he observed all this, For nothing delighted him more Than plucky, desperate deeds; So he resolved that he Would see to this thing himself. Who acts: Master, Kulóskap. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9, with its depe
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 86

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Now the Master was greatly pleased When he observed all this, For nothing delighted him more Than plucky, desperate deeds; So he resolved that he Would see to this thing himself.

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**Who acts:** Master, Kulóskap · **What happens:** be, observe, resolve, see · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, Kulóskap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:9:86
# text = Now the Master was greatly pleased When he observed all this, For nothing delighted him more Than plucky, desperate deeds; So he resolved that he Would see to this thing himself.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	For	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	parataxis	_	_
15	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	Than	than	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	plucky	plucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	So	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	33	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Master |  |  |  | now | greatly, pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **observe** | past | Kulóskap | this |  |  |  | nothing *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | would | Kulóskap |  |  |  |  | to this thing  Kulóskap | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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